The first table below looks at the demand for Opalis skills in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Opalis over the 3 months to 19 June 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Systems Management category.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Opalis
Rank 857 844 768
Rank change year-on-year
-13 -76
Permanent jobs citing Opalis 11 41 114
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 0.010% 0.034% 0.089%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.172% 0.705% 1.957%
Number of salaries quoted 10 40 105
Average salary £35,000 £52,500 £52,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-33.33% -
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year
-33.33% -
All Systems Management
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Systems Management category
6396 5815 5825
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 5.872% 4.825% 4.537%
Number of salaries quoted 5085 4762 4710
Average salary £45,000 £45,000 £43,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +3.44%
90% offered a salary of more than £31,500 £29,000 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £64,000 £62,500 £65,000
UK excluding London average salary £41,000 £40,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
+2.50% -

Opalis
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Opalis within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Systems Management category.

Opalis Jobs Demand Trend

Opalis
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Opalis within the UK.

Opalis Salary Trend

Opalis
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Opalis over the 3 months to 19 June 2013 within the UK.

Opalis Salary Histogram

Opalis
Top 5 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Opalis within the UK over the 3 months to 19 June 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Find
Job
Vacancies
England -5 11 £35,000 -33.33% 1
South East +11 8 £35,000 -33.33% 1
Farnborough - 8 £35,000 - 1
Hampshire - 8 £35,000 - 1
Midlands - 2 £23,250 -

Opalis
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs within the UK citing Opalis also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited Opalis.

1 43 (75.44%) SCCM
2 30 (52.63%) VMware
3 29 (50.88%) Microsoft
4 27 (47.37%) Windows
5 22 (38.60%) Linux
5 22 (38.60%) Perl
5 22 (38.60%) MySQL
5 22 (38.60%) Oracle
5 22 (38.60%) Nagios
5 22 (38.60%) Python
5 22 (38.60%) NetIQ
5 22 (38.60%) AppManager
5 22 (38.60%) VMware Infrastructure
5 22 (38.60%) Ruby
5 22 (38.60%) SolarWinds
5 22 (38.60%) Puppet
6 21 (36.84%) SQL Server
7 20 (35.09%) Citrix
7 20 (35.09%) Active Directory
8 18 (31.58%) SCOM
9 17 (29.82%) PowerShell
9 17 (29.82%) Data Protection
9 17 (29.82%) Hyper-V
9 17 (29.82%) PHP
9 17 (29.82%) Java
9 17 (29.82%) .NET
9 17 (29.82%) ITIL
10 14 (24.56%) vSphere
11 13 (22.81%) Windows Server 2008
12 12 (21.05%) XenApp

Opalis
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs within the UK citing Opalis also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited Opalis. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 17 (29.82%) .NET
2 7 (12.28%) Middleware
3 4 (7.018%) Ruby on Rails
Application Platforms
1 8 (14.04%) Apache
Applications
1 9 (15.79%) MS Excel
2 8 (14.04%) MS PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (1.754%) Remedy ITSM
Communications & Networking
1 8 (14.04%) DHCP
1 8 (14.04%) DNS
2 7 (12.28%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (38.60%) MySQL
2 21 (36.84%) SQL Server
3 5 (8.772%) Oracle Reports
4 4 (7.018%) OLAP
4 4 (7.018%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 4 (7.018%) Microsoft Analysis Services
4 4 (7.018%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 4 (7.018%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Job Titles
1 19 (33.33%) Consultant
2 15 (26.32%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 10 (17.54%) Data Consultant
3 10 (17.54%) Systems Administrator
3 10 (17.54%) Administrator
4 9 (15.79%) Analyst
5 8 (14.04%) Operations Consultant
5 8 (14.04%) Linux Systems Administrator
5 8 (14.04%) Linux Administrator
5 8 (14.04%) Management Consultant
6 6 (10.53%) Technical Consultant
6 6 (10.53%) Graduate
7 4 (7.018%) Developer
7 4 (7.018%) Report Analyst
7 4 (7.018%) Analyst Developer
7 4 (7.018%) MI Analyst
7 4 (7.018%) Automation Analyst
8 3 (5.263%) Automation Engineer
8 3 (5.263%) Citrix Engineer
9 2 (3.509%) UNIX Systems Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 8 (14.04%) Clustering
2 4 (7.018%) Cloud Computing
2 4 (7.018%) IaaS
2 4 (7.018%) SaaS
2 4 (7.018%) PaaS
Operating Systems
1 27 (47.37%) Windows
2 22 (38.60%) Linux
3 13 (22.81%) Windows Server 2008
4 12 (21.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 8 (14.04%) CentOS
5 8 (14.04%) Ubuntu
6 4 (7.018%) UNIX
7 3 (5.263%) Windows Server 2003
8 2 (3.509%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (29.82%) Data Protection
1 17 (29.82%) ITIL
2 9 (15.79%) Service Management
2 9 (15.79%) ITSM
2 9 (15.79%) Software Distribution
3 8 (14.04%) Migration
4 6 (10.53%) Information Security
4 6 (10.53%) Network Architecture
5 5 (8.772%) Infrastructure Management
5 5 (8.772%) Web Development
5 5 (8.772%) Operations Management
5 5 (8.772%) Workflow
5 5 (8.772%) Configuration Management
6 2 (3.509%) Change Management
7 1 (1.754%) Problem Management
7 1 (1.754%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 22 (38.60%) Perl
1 22 (38.60%) Python
1 22 (38.60%) Ruby
2 17 (29.82%) PowerShell
2 17 (29.82%) PHP
2 17 (29.82%) Java
3 9 (15.79%) SQL
4 8 (14.04%) VBScript
5 4 (7.018%) VB
5 4 (7.018%) VBA
Qualifications
1 3 (5.263%) CCAA
1 3 (5.263%) CCA
1 3 (5.263%) Citrix Certification
1 3 (5.263%) CCEA
2 2 (3.509%) Degree
3 1 (1.754%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (10.53%) SLA
System Software
1 22 (38.60%) VMware Infrastructure
2 20 (35.09%) Active Directory
3 17 (29.82%) Hyper-V
4 14 (24.56%) vSphere
5 12 (21.05%) XenApp
6 9 (15.79%) Microsoft App-V
6 9 (15.79%) XenServer
6 9 (15.79%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 43 (75.44%) SCCM
2 22 (38.60%) Nagios
2 22 (38.60%) AppManager
2 22 (38.60%) Puppet
3 18 (31.58%) SCOM
4 11 (19.30%) SCVMM
5 9 (15.79%) BladeLogic
Vendors
1 30 (52.63%) VMware
2 29 (50.88%) Microsoft
3 22 (38.60%) Oracle
3 22 (38.60%) NetIQ
3 22 (38.60%) SolarWinds
4 20 (35.09%) Citrix
5 10 (17.54%) Red Hat
6 9 (15.79%) BMC
7 1 (1.754%) HP
7 1 (1.754%) Cisco
7 1 (1.754%) Remedy
Farnborough, Hampshire
Linux, Systems Administrator, Systems Administration, Redhat, Ubuntu, Ruby on Rails, RoR, Ruby, CentOS, RHEL, Python, Perl, Apache, Nagios, Solarwinds, PHP, Linux, Graduate... ~ Nagios, Solarwinds, SCCM, NetIQ AppManager, Opalis,...
Peopleworks
Salary: From £30,000 to £40,000 per annum + Bonus + Excellent Benefits
Posted: 14 June 2013